STS

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STS may refer to:

Science, medicine, meteorology and technology

• Science and technology studies
• Science, technology and society
• Socio-technical systems
• Superior temporal sulcus
• Severe Tropical Storm
• Scanning tunneling spectroscopy, a spectroscopy technique based on Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
• Sequence-tagged site, a gene-reference in genomics
• Space Transportation System, a 1969 visionary NASA system of reusable space vehicles
• NASA's Space Shuttle program, the only implemented part of the Space Transportation System
• Semipalatinsk Test Site, the primary test site for Soviet nuclear weapons
• Intel Science Talent Search, a research-based science competition
• Space Tourism Society, a society focused on space tourism
• Special treatment steel, a high-quality chromium-nickel armor steel used by the US Navy
• Ship-to-ship transfer, an operation where cargo is transferred between seagoing ships
• STS (gene), which codes for steroid sulfatase
• Staurosporine, an antibiotic
• Serologic Tests for Syphilis, an umbrella term for diagnostic blood tests for syphilis
• Meet the Future, Science & Technology Summit 2010
• Sterkfontein Type Site, an abbreviation used with Australopithecus specimens from the Sterkfontein site in South Africa
• Static Transfer Switch, An electronic device that is used to transfer an electrical load between two sources.

Computing

• Security Token Service (STS), a web service that issues security tokens
• State transition system, an abstract machine used in the study of computation
• Station-to-Station protocol, a cryptographic key agreement scheme that provides mutual authentication
• Synergy Teleconferencing System, a computer bulletin board operating system
• SharePoint, originally known as SharePoint Team Services
• Microsoft Live Labs Security Token Service, a gateway to handle claims within Microsoft's Identity Metasystem
• HTTP Strict Transport Security (STS), a web security policy mechanism

Communications

• Serviciul de Telecomunicaţii Speciale, the Romanian Special Telecommunication Service
• STS Relay, the speech to speech relay service available via 711 in the United States
• STS (TV channel), a Russian TV channel
• STS, a Synchronous Transport Signal, part of the Synchronous optical networking communications system

Culture

• Satanas, a Filipino-American gang
• Stepover Toehold Sleeper, a submission hold used in professional wrestling
• Sing the Sorrow, an album by AFI
• Swallow the Sun, a Finnish death metal band

Societies, organisations and companies

• Sheboygan Transit System, a public bus system run by the city of Sheboygan, Wisconsin
• Sisu Terminal Systems, a former terminal tractor producer
• Société de transport de Sherbrooke, a public bus system in Sherbrooke, Quebec
• Société de transport du Saguenay, a public bus system in Saguenay, Quebec
• Siemens Transportation Systems, the transportation business unit of Siemens AG
• Scottish Tartans Society, a defunct Scottish society devoted to tartan
• Society of the Holy Trinity (Societas Trinitatis Sanctae - STS), Lutheran ministerium
• Suomen Työväen Säästöpankki, a defunct Finnish commercial bank

Other uses

• Short-term business statistics, for monthly and quarterly economic statistics
• Cadillac STS, a luxury car sold by Cadillac
• Saints, the plural of Saint, for example: Sts. Peter and Paul
• STS, the IATA airport code for Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport
• Susquehannock Trail System, in northcentral Pennsylvania
• Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School, a private school in Alberta
• Satellite Transit System, the underground people mover in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
• Sail Training Ship, a ship's prefix
• Special Tactics Squadrons, special forces units belonging to United States Air Force Special Operations Command